[Rarebooks] fs: Insanity is all in your head (1834)

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Combe, Andrew.  OBSERVATIONS ON MENTAL DERANGEMENT: Being an Application of 
the Principles of Phrenology to the Elucidation of the Causes, Symptoms, 
Nature, and Treatment of Insanity.

Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon; 1834.
First American edition.

A curious book -a real attempt to reform the medical thinking about 
insanity, the only problem being that Combe wanted to replace it with 
Phrenological principles.  Curious it may have been, but it has also been 
called brilliantly written and was a very popular text and a real influence 
in its day.

Combe (1797-1847) was an ardent admirer of that indefatigable pair of 
European phrenological champions- Drs. Gall and Spurzhiem. He founded the 
Phrenological Journal in 1823, and was also president of the Phrenological 
Society.

Hardcover. 6"x9", 336 pages; bound in the original pebbled cloth.  Some 
cover wear and soil, a few minor spine chips; some minor internal 
foxing.  19th century ownership label of Dr. S.E. Lawton affixed to the 
front pastedown.

Our Usual Price $325.00
Today's HIT ME ON THE HEAD AND TAKE A
CRAZY SPRING INTO SUMMER PRICE $225.00 net


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